'Kindred' used in Irish Marriage Registers

[Stirrick]

I've been working my way through the Marriage Register (seemingly pre-1845 format) for Kilmore-Eris Parish in Mayo.

http://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0752

Has anyone got any idea what the 'Kindred' column is used for ?

The incumbent has obviously used shorthand when filling in the details, but unfortunately has neglected to record a key to this.

The numbers look too restricted to record anything useful (like relationship between Bride and Groom, or number of siblings) but it would still be interesting to find out.

[SRD]

It may be how closely related the couple are, in a small area, within a particular religion, there must have been quite a lot of inter family marriage.
There are charts of degrees of kinship/kindred on the internet which might help.
Irish priests were pretty much conversant with Latin so some of the terms may simply be the Latin translation.
I think the word affinity means that the relationship is 'natural' i.e. illegitimacy.

This site might give you a few more leads.

[Stirrick]

Thanks for replying to my query.

The Kilmore-Eris Registers only go back to 1860, so if the 'Kindred' column did record relations further back in time it would be an invaluable source of information.

As you say, the Parish encompasses a relatively small population - basically the inhabitants of the Belmullet Peninsular - and so it would make sense to monitor how closely related a couple were.

I just wish that the Priest had been a bit more explicit !!!

[gardener]

Hi

From a quick look, it generally says something like

3°et 3°

or

3°& 3°affinity


The first will be be the degree of relationship by blood (consanguinity). When affinity is there too it means the degree of relationship but by marriage.

http://www.islandregister.com/consanguinity.html explains it quite well I think.

But the actual entries are a bit ambiguous so I'm not sure how useful it will be

[SRD]

An excellent piece of work, that page should be added to Links.

[Stirrick]

Thanks very much for that, Gardener.

And I agree, SRD, more people should know about it.
It could be really useful in proving a link, especially where the relationship is first cousins.

[gardener]

Just keep in mind that the link is to Prince Edward Island site, but I think it holds for Catholic records in general.